7 roads

Best driving roads in the world, with pace notes

There is no single best driving road, so this isn’t a ranking. It is a list of the famous ones, the roads people cross borders to drive, each run through Turini’s pace-note engine and called corner by corner: every hairpin, grade and crest, the elevation profile and the first kilometres of calls.

Best driving roads in the Alps

2 roads

Best driving roads in the UK

2 roads

More of the best driving roads in Europe

2 roads · All 6 in Europe, ranked by hairpins ›

Best driving roads in the USA

1 road

What the numbers mean

Each corner is called as a direction and a grade from 1 (tightest) to 6 (nearly straight). Hairpins are the turns that double back on themselves. The counts come straight from Turini’s engine reading the OpenStreetMap road, the same calls you hear in the car. The climb (↑) is the height gained over the route, from terrain data. New to it? Read how to read pace notes.

Turini works on any road in OpenStreetMap, not only these. These are the famous ones.

Always drive within the law, the conditions and what you can see. Turini tells you what the map says; the road is what counts.